Biltmore Village Dickens Festival
December 5-7, 2008

Hours:
   Friday, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Saturday, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm

Friday night, December 5, will be opening night for the annual Dickens Festival in Historic Biltmore Village.  The Festival provides three days of merriment, music and memories for everyone. 

Friday night's opening performances will feature the All Souls Episcopal Choir performing seasonal classics, the Montford Park Players with excerpts from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, plus additional on-stage vocal and instrumental performances by local artists. Saturday night will highlight an on-stage concert from 5-7pm by Simple Folk, Asheville’s well-known musical entertainers, performing traditional folk, holiday seasonal and mountain holiday music.

Throughout the weekend, there'll be more than 30 groups of musicians, singers, storytellers. carolers and other entertainers performing on the stage and the streets of this picturesque village of shops, galleries and restaurants.
Buildings in the Village are with more than 250,000 tiny white lights, and replicas of the original streetlights line the avenues throughout.  Shops will be open until 7 pm, with many of the shopkeepers clothed in Victorian-era garbOn Saturday and Sunday, there’ll be horse-drawn carriage rides on the tree-lined Village streets and a treat for your taste buds when you stop and see Sakshi Gantenbein, the “Chestnut Roaster.”

For additional information call 274-8788.
 

 



   
          

 


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